(from Lat. mille, "a thousand;" Matthew 5:41), a Roman measure of 1,000 paces of 5 feet each. Thus the Roman mile has 1618 yards, being 142 yards shorter than the English mile.

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

(n.) A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.